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"Out practicing your freak-shots?"
-Tim, to me, yesterday, when I was outside practicing my freak-shots.

My Shots
The "Look Ma, No Hands"
-Shoot the ball without use of hands (typically by holding it with the wrists)
The "Gotta Have My Hops"
-Layup: while in the air, ball passes through legs and is then shot with the off-hand
The "Thumbscrews"
-Shoot ball holding it only with the thumbs
The "Over-Board"
-Shoot ball from behind backboard
The "Carnival"
-Shoot the ball while your friend wobbles the hoop back and forth
The "Skee-Ball"
-Shoot underhanded, one hand

Still in Development
The "Blind Faith"
-Shoot ball facing backwards
The "Cliffhanger"
-Shoot with both feet touching base of pole, one-handed, off-hand
The "Superboy Punch"
-Shoot by punching ball (but from a closer range than the "Superman Punch")

-J

5/2/11

7 months being married.  It's certainly the best 7-month stretch I've had.  I love being married.  It's great on so many levels.
I heard on the news this morning that Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Troops.  It was at the end of a whole report section on the recent sports matches.  Basketball, hockey, baseball, p.s. Osama.  It was right as I pulled up to work and it was sort of surreal.  Of course, this is a person I have never met, and have only ever heard news of.  But the only way my life has been really impacted by him is that airplane rides are much less convenient for me now.  I hope it isn't disrespectful not to pretend otherwise, but it's true.  I'm sure I would feel very differently if a friend or relative had been killed in an Al Qaida attack, but I'm completely removed and it's abstract.

-J